Extension Without Evaluation

The government has extended martial law in Aceh. Evaluation of the first six months is yet to show a clear result.

November 11, 2003

AFTER a cabinet meeting on Thursday last week, Coordinating Minister for Political & Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono could no longer evade the dozens of reporters who had been waiting for him since noon. That afternoon he was "surrounded" in the main building of the state secretariat, Jakarta. The journalists were waiting to hear the government's decision about the planned extension of martial law in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam provi

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